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Monday, January 25
January 25, 2010

 Evidence of a successful amputation performed 6,900 years ago has been found in the tomb of a high-status man in France. “I don’t think you could say that those who carried out the operation were doctors in the modern sense that they did only that, but they obviously had medical knowledge,” said archaeologist Cecile Buquet-Marcon.   […]

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